I’m in Huntsville, Alabama for the Rocket City Geospatial Conference where Neal Niemiec and I will be running a lab today on Creating Web 2.0 applications on an open source platform, I’ll be talking later […]
There was an interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle last Friday by Michael Cabanatuan entitled Paper maps crumpling in face of electronic onslaught (Paper Maps) which contains some interesting statistics. AAA hands out a […]
Al Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize it was announced today in Oslo because of their role in raising the awareness about global climate change. This […]
I just saw this Sinking Ferry on Jason Birch’s blog. It just shows you the artifacts that can be created if you’re not too concerned with the quality of your data.
An interesting report A Study of the Status of Full Cost Recovery and Sustainability of Ontario Municipal Water and Wastewater Systems was released last week by the Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association, an industry […]
At FOSS4G last week I discovered that the Brazilian Space Agency INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) has become a sponsor of OSGeo. Also INPE has submitted TerraLib as an OSGeo incubator project. I have […]
Adena Schutzberg of Directions Magazine offers interesting background (Adena on Mentor Software ) on Mentor Software and Norm Olsen. I recommend you look at the comments to Adena’s article. They illustrate the benefits of the […]
Following quickly after the proposed acquisition of Tele Atlas N.V. by TomTom N.V. (TomTom Offer), it was probably only a matter of time before someone acquired Navteq. Today Nokia announced that it has agreed to […]